kolkhoz
Example Sentences
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Many had fallen into a slowly degrading limbo: The kolkhoz, or collective farm, that once stood in the heart of Senkivka was abandoned, graffiti on its walls warning that the building was liable to collapse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2022
Where herders were convinced to merge their reindeer, kolkhoz herds were so small and supplies so short that the collectives never got off the ground.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 15, 2019
Five years later, Iatgyrgin returned from spring pasture to his kolkhoz, Polar Star, to find that families were starving.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 15, 2019
Despite its inefficiency, the Ukraina kolkhoz is one of the Soviet Union's most profitable collective farms.
From Time Magazine Archive
“You have to collect your ration coupon at the kolkhoz office.”
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
